STEIG AUS [ALSO RELEASED AS: THIS IS EMBRYO]

The product of a series of intense studio sessions from 1971 to 1972 which also yielded the material released as Rocksession, this finds Embryo getting so deep into their Krautrock-tinged mashup of jazz fusion and world music that United Artists simply didn't know what to make of it - resulting in the album eventually emerging on the Brain label. With Mal Waldron contributing parts here and there on piano, the album is a generation-bridging affair which (via Radio Marrakesch) begins with Middle Eastern devotional music and ends up on the fringes of outer space. Not something I expect to put on heavy rotation, but a pretty decent effort in its own right.